Living: Croissant Vite

Frenchmen in the mass, alas, have succumbed to American fast food.
McDonald's has hamburger dispensaries all over Paris, and Burger King
has opened a shop on the Champs-Elysées. But the French have launched a
spirited counterattack. Their ammunition is the croissant, the flaky,
crescent-shaped roll that is as dear to French palates as scones to the
Scots or Mom's apple pie to Americans. Gourmands are lining up for
McCroissants at American-patterned restaurants rapides from sleazy St.
Denis to the Boulevard St. Germain.